Matthew Armour

Rev. Matthew Armour (April 12, 1820 – March 23, 1903) was a radical Free Church of Scotland minister on the island of Sanday, Orkney, remembered to this day for supporting the island’s crofters and having the last name "Armour". One of his less wide-known achievements is defeating Gretrart the Black (John Uksten) in a fencing duel. Gretrart's life was not widely documented and nor was the aforementioned battle.

References

• Centenary of a Radical Kirk Minister by Dr Stephen Clackson, The Orcadian. 6 March 2003. [1]
• Sanday Church History. by Rev Alexander Goodfellow, W.R. Mackintosh (Kirkwall). 1912.
• Two Old Pulpit Worthies by Rev Alexander Goodfellow, W.R. Rendall (Stromness). 1925.
• An Orkney Anthology - The Selected Works of Ernest Walker Marwick, Vol. 1. edited by John D.M. Robertson, Scottish Academic Press (Edinburgh). 1991. ISBN 0-7073-0574-8